TVOS AVPlayerController - Content Overlay custom subviews

Depends upon the PlaybackControl Visibity How to show and hide the Custom Subview added in contentOverlayView?

I want to do like Youtube TVOS app did.

I tried with UIPressesEvent but it is not giving me the exact touch events. It is giving me these:

  override func pressesBegan(presses: Set<UIPress>, withEvent event: UIPressesEvent?) {     for item in presses {         switch item.type {         case .Menu:             self.customViews.alpha = 0         case .PlayPause:             self.player?.pause()             self.customViews.alpha = 0         default:             self.setVisibilityToPreviewView()         }       }     }   func setVisibilityToPreviewView () { //This wont work in all cases.       if self.previewView.alpha == 1 {          self.previewView.alpha = 0       } else {          self.previewView.alpha = 1       }     } 

But with this Touch events i can only show and hide the subviews. It should be hidden when the playbackcontrol is Hidden.

If I get the PlayBackControl Visibility values I don't need to worry about hiding these subviews.

Apple is Using AVNowPlayingPlaybackControlsViewController. It is not open for developers.

So I need to find some other better way to do this.

Please guide me how to do it.

1 Answers

Answers 1

You can register a tapGesture recognizer and then set its allowPressTypes property to UIPressType.Select, something like this

let tapRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "onSelect:") tapRecognizer.allowedPressTypes = [NSNumber(integer: UIPressType.Select.rawValue)]; self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapRecognizer) 

And inside your action button show or hide custom overlays.

Example: Add this code inside a view controller and on tap (selecting at empty area on front of remote, touch area) you will see a message on console.

override func viewDidLoad() {         super.viewDidLoad()         let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "onSelect")         tapGesture.allowedPressTypes = [NSNumber(integer: UIPressType.Select.rawValue)]         self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture);     }     func onSelect(){         print("this is select gesture handler method");     } 

Update: Below is the code which will create AVPlayerController and will register tapGestureRecognizer to playervc.view.

override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {         super.viewDidAppear(animated)         playContent()     }     func playContent(){         let urlString = "<contentURL>"         guard let url = NSURL(string: urlString) else{             return         }         let avPlayer = AVPlayer(URL: url)         let playerVC = AVPlayerViewController()         playerVC.player = avPlayer         self.playerObj = playerVC          let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "onSelect")         tapGesture.allowedPressTypes = [NSNumber(integer: UIPressType.Select.rawValue)]         self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture);          playerVC.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)         self.presentViewController(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil);      } 

Give a try to this, I think it should work fine.

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